I've seen this wierd issue in companies(not open-souce, just plain normal companies with minimal OS involvement) where I'd send decent technical writeups to people who sould understand them, with issues that affected them but they didn't... friggin... read... them. I think maybe this problem is also present in OS where, you write stuff but get a lot of questions back that could be solved by people reading the friggin' documentation. Maybe this makes people feel it's pointless.